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Hall of a Thousand Columns

Paperback • 2006 • English

Hall of a Thousand Columns

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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About the book

All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey -- the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge a...Show more

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ISBN

9780719565878

Publisher

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Hall of a Thousand Columns

Format

Paperback

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